Esper X Family – Chapter 467 – Starscourge the Conqueror

As an overbearing mental power enveloped the entire Bluestar.

All the light screens of the All-Knowing Demon Eye focused on a single location like spotlights.

Aboard the bioship stood a towering figure.

Its humanoid form was encased in dark-gold heavy armor ¹ An image of Boros in armor for no particular reason. (Yeah right, none at all huh… – Proofreader Enncie) , the surface of which flowed with lava-like blood-red patterns.

Beneath the helmet, two points of scarlet light glowed like the embers of a collapsing star; wherever its gaze swept, even space itself distorted.

Its body wasn’t as massive as a star. It was even smaller than many of the powerful alien enemies sent onto Bluestar, standing only at three or four meters tall.

But despite this, everyone instinctively felt the sheer magnitude of energy contained within its frame.

The humans across all of Bluestar instinctively fell silent.

Even animals possessing mental power weren’t spared.

The survival instincts of living creatures rendered them incapable of making a single sound.

Even if they were terrified, all they could do was tremble uncontrollably.

“Is that… the final enemy?”

“Can we win? We absolutely can’t win, can we?”

“It’s over. How could we possibly defeat this!?”

The intense pressure and fear caused people to lose clarity, spouting nonsense, and easily crushed the wills of the weaker-minded.

Panic spread rapidly.

Even the confidence built from previous consecutive victories was dispersed by this overwhelming sense of oppression.

Everyone could feel that this final boss was many times stronger than the previous formidable enemies!

Even the many human powerhouses who had recently displayed their might would be kicked to death with a single blow!

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Inside the Countermeasures Bureau headquarters.

They were calculating the fluctuations of the aura emanating from the opponent, but no matter what, they couldn’t accurately quantify it.

They only felt that the opponent was like another star. Although its energy was contained, its magnitude wasn’t the slightest bit inferior!

Lou Wei was long gone from sight, clearly prepared to strike.

Ye Yao stared at the figure on the screen, gently soothing the uneasy lolis beside her.

“So this is the interstellar overlord? It’s somewhat interesting.”

The feeling it gave off was indeed far more formidable than Lou Wei and Fu Qi.

Even the Vengeful Spirit that had been kicked to death some time ago seemed like a stray dog in comparison.

Seen in this light, it was indeed qualified to rampage across the universe.

Defeating Bluestar’s Strongest of the Current Era and Strongest in History probably wouldn’t pose much difficulty for it.

Perhaps it would even be a complete crushing.

Soon after, Tu Sheng’s intelligence report was released.

Ye Yao updated her understanding of the enemy.

“The Conqueror, Starscourge ² 星劫xing jie. 星xing just mean star, while 劫jie can mean plunder, to rob, calamity, or to seize by force. Incidentally Boros’ group in One Punch Man is called “Dark Matter Thieves”. . Racial talent: the ability to destroy any law using pure power. Base mental power… five hundred thousand.”

Outer space.

Fu Qi felt his body trembling in instinctual fear. Countless cells screamed at him to make survival his primary objective.

Get away! He must get away!

The power within that being absolutely surpassed his own!

Yet, Fu Qi suppressed his body’s instincts. He didn’t speak, nor did he utter a single inquiry. Instead, he launched his strongest slash yet, a zero-frame strike!

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His condition hadn’t recovered enough to use the Void Form yet.

If he engaged a stronger enemy, he would most likely be killed.

In that case, he could only expend his last remaining energy!

He would gamble his life to probe this powerful enemy’s ability and leave some intel for Lou Wei, who was still at peak condition!

Slash!

Starscourge’s scarlet pupils shifted slightly.

Fu Qi’s spatial slash, which was powerful enough to tear apart a starship, silently disintegrated like fragile glass the moment it touched Starscourge’s dark-gold armor.

The potent spatial slash left a ferocious scar across the bioship’s surface, but the Conqueror standing in its path showed no trace of injury.

There was no roar of colliding energies, not even a ripple of spatial distortion.

It was as if the “existence” of the slash itself had been brutally erased by an invisible giant hand.

Fu Qi felt that his attack had been destroyed at the instant of contact.

There was no trace of the opponent using spatial ability. It was pure destruction!

“Is this for real?”

Fu Qi was dumbfounded.

Hadn’t he just received a major power-up?

Why was he back in low-tier again?

Starscourge seemed to direct its gaze toward him.

“Struggles of an ant.”

The low voice didn’t travel through air but was hammered directly into Fu Qi’s mind via mental power.

“You are a soldier. I am an overlord. Do not overstep your bounds.”

Fu Qi had no time to react.

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An irresistible force had completely immobilized him.

The spatial ability he prided himself on was like a frozen lake, unable to produce even the slightest ripple.

It was mental power!

Extremely pure mental power!

Starscourge’s massive hand, covered in lava-patterned armor, reached out casually.

The hand crossed spatial distance, accurately seizing Fu Qi by the neck and lifting him like a chicken awaiting slaughter.

Intense helplessness and suffocation flooded Fu Qi’s entire being.

The aftereffects of the Void Form had clearly not faded yet.

Every bone in his body groaned under the strain of the Conqueror’s pure, despair-inducing force.

The surging mental power within him was completely suppressed. Even activating a form skill to self-destruct became a luxury.

The evidence was clear.

Starscourge had come to Bluestar merely for conscription, not to find an opponent capable of matching it.

Even if the powerhouses of this planet had defeated the alien warriors it had collected from various regions, that didn’t mean they were qualified to contend against it.

Starscourge didn’t spare Fu Qi another glance, as if the thing in its grip was nothing but an ant.

“Join me on the long voyage. This is your honor. It is better to tread the starry rivers with me than to cower on this insignificant planet.”

“Dream on…!”

Fu Qi struggled fiercely. The mental power within him attempted to break free of the suppression, but he couldn’t manage it.

He couldn’t even use his abilities.

“Then watch the brilliance of this planet’s extinction unfold. You have no other choice.”

Starscourge transformed into a dark-gold meteor that tore through the starry sky, dragging the captured Fu Qi with it as it slammed violently toward the azure planet!

The atmosphere tore before it like fragile paper.

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Frictional plasma flames wrapped around Starscourge’s form, yet they couldn’t leave a single trace on its dark-gold armor, instead making it look like a world-destroying demon god descending.

Just as the dark-gold meteor breached the atmosphere and was about to plunge into the troposphere—

BOOM!

A storm erupted!

The entire planet’s atmosphere seemed to be stirred by an invisible giant hand.

Centered around Starscourge’s breaching point, a superstorm vortex covering half a continent instantly formed!

This was no naturally occurring storm. It was forcibly induced by pure, unimaginably vast mental power!

Numerous violent tornado columns twisted like mad pythons, lashing out from all directions toward the dark-gold figure.

Each wind pillar contained destructive energy sufficient to tear apart mountain ranges and vaporize oceans!

The air was compressed to its limit, emitting piercing shrieks.

Space itself warped with unstable ripples under the storm’s assault.

This sudden planetary-level disaster had a clear target and overwhelming momentum!

The moment the storm took shape, all light screens of the All-Knowing Demon Eye swiveled wildly, magnetically drawn to focus on the core of the storm’s eye!

The lenses pierced through the chaotic airflow and energy turbulence, locking dead onto a single figure.

The Strongest Esper of the Current Era – Lou Wei has entered the stage!

Author Note

I’m almost at one million words, and now I need to come up with a fifteen-character title for advertising. My head hurts.

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Sleeping steamed bun ³ Yea I have no idea what the heck this means. I feel like it’s probably a cantonese pun or something…